I enjoyed the response to the last chapter. But in response to that guest that made the comment about the council, this is a fanfiction. If I want there to be a council besides the Elders, then there'll be a frigging council besides the elders. Besides it adds for more conflict! Anyways, on to the chapter.

Human Speaking

Human Thinking

Demon speaking

Demon thinking

Ghost Speaking

Ghost Thinking

Chapter 2

Naruto and his team walked into the Hokage Tower. Their sensei was walking behind them, reading the book and yet avoiding every obstacle. Naruto ignored all the glares he was given, almost losing a debate against himself to not kill any who looked at him the wrong way. His training and instincts that were in his genes from a long dead ancestors were screaming at him to make them fear him. But he wouldn't do that. All he would do was make the enemies of his land fear him. Yeah, his ancestor might be disappointed, but things were a lot different now then they were in his time.

They made it to the Hokage's Office, Kakashi explaining that they were there to see the Hokage.

The secretary nodded as she answered. "No one is allowed to see Lord Third right now. He's in a very important meeting. None are allowed in, especially not the de- I mean boy."

Naruto's eye flicked to her and his irises changed from blue to red, his pupils turning into slits. He remembered a time he heard the Sandaime explaining about the rule concerning the subject she just breached. Smiling devilishy, he decided he might just start his debut now. But then, something felt off about the situation.

He heard nothing behind the door, but using his keen senses, he picked up yelling, though it was faint. He walked up to the door, ignoring the objections of the secretary and placed his ear against it. He heard struggling and looked at his sensei. He stepped back a few paces, and let the chakra of his tenant seep into his eyes. Soon, a seal array appeared on the door. The ink was normally black, but to his eyes it glowed a light blue (Avatar state eye blue.) Naruto clenched his fist and growled.

"Kakashi," he said, his voice losing its cheerful quality. "Something's going on. There's a seal array on the door. Most wouldn't see it, but your Sharigan might. I can't figure out the nature of the seal, but it could be a Class A seal. I do recognize the similarities between it and a silencing seal though. But I also have to question why the secretary wouldn't let us in. She knows something."

Kakashi nodded, placing his porn into his pouch and looked at the secretary. Sweating bullets, she tried to get up and run, but Naruto pounced on her, slamming her head into the table and holding her arm at a painful angle in between her shoulder blades, his nails digging into her dress and barely grazing the skin. Sakura and Sasuke looked confused and scared as they had never seen this side of Naruto before. Naruto drew a kunai from his pouch, his eyes taking on an icy hue. He placed it on the secretary's neck, the blade barely piercing her skin and drawing a slight trail of blood. She whimpered, flicking her eyes to the kunai and back to Naruto.

"What's going on behind that door?" he asked, his eyes starting to bleed into an orangish-red.

The secretary shook her head, holding her hands against her desk.

"I don't know," she stammered. Fear leaked into her every word and Naruto growled. He knew the woman was an ex-shinobi, a former chunin who had been injured in a mission and lost her hand. Suna puppet masters wouldn't make her a replacement, so she was regulated to desk duty as the Sandaime's secretary.

Kakashi growled, looking at Sasuke and Sakura. "You two, go and find any Jounin you can. Tell them this could be a class S situation, priority Alpha. The Hokage's in trouble and this needs to be taken care of now!"

The two nodded as they left and Kakashi looked at Naruto. Naruto was looking at the secretary, his eyes starting to turn to slits. His teeth elongated into fangs and his nails into claws. He picked her up, slamming her into the wall, cracking the wooden frame. Red chakra started leaking from him, spiking his hair up and enlarging his whisker marks. The secretary struggled, her hands clawing at Naruto's wrist and her attempting to kick the genin in the groin.

Kakashi looked at Naruto and put a hand on his shoulder. "Naruto," he said, his voice taking the tone of his ANBU days. "Your Kyuubi chakra is leaking. Use it to get to Sandaime-sama. You may be the only one that could bust through that door."

Naruto nodded as he set the woman down. He looked at the door and calmly sat in a lotus position. His body seemed to briefly fade before he opened his eyes.

-Mindscape-

Naruto opened his eyes and looked around, noting the familiar surroundings of the sewer. He stood up, following the pipes to the direction they were going. He calmly walked to a cage that was once held together by a piece of paper, the paper tag now lying on the ground, shredded beyond recognition. He walked into the cage, walking towards the snoring entity that was behind the doors.

He stepped onto the beings paw, running in the direction its ear would be in. He took a deep breath and spoke.

"KURAME-KAA-CHAN!" he spoke.

The being shifted, standing on her paws quickly. She took a deep yawning breath and looked at her "kit," her eyes glowing, slitted and alert, tails waving menacingly.

"What is it kit?" she asked, wanting to know who was threatening her son. "Who needs to die!?"

Naruto laughed at her antics. "No one yet, but there's something going down in Ojii-san's office. There's a seal on the door that's blocking out most of the noise. Most jounin can't hear anything but I can. Most wouldn't like me talking to you but I need advice. What do you recommend?" he asked, his voice lacking its usual cheerful quality.

Kurame sat on her haunches, wrapping a tail around her adopted son and lifting him up. She set him on her snout and looked him in the eye as he sat in the lotus position (1). She sat on all fours, resting her chin on her forepaw and took a deep breath.

"What's the nature of the seal?" she asked.

"I think it's an advanced, possibly high Class A silencing seal. Only people that I know can make those are Yondaime-sama and the Old Toad, but one's dead and the other isn't here."

Kurame nodded. "Could someone have learned and just hidden their skills like you've been doing?"

Naruto placed his chin in his palm as he thought. "Could be. But I think there may be a protection seal on the door. Could you lend me some chakra so I can break it?"

Kurame nodded as she patted her kit with her tail and he disappeared.

-Hokage Tower-

Naruto stood up from his lotus position, opening his eyes. He quickly took in the situation and saw the senseis of the Rookie 12 and other jounin he didn't recognize. They were talking, analyzing the situation and coming up with ideas on how to deal with it. Maito Gai, or Bushier Brows-sensei as he was known to Naruto, appeared to be holding his leg.

Naruto walked up to them and whistled loudly, as they were acting like children and arguing about the best way to deal with it. Everyone jumped and looked at Naruto, some nodding in respect and others showing anger in their eyes and keeping their faces cool.

"Listen," Naruto said. "None of the ideas you have would work. Setting the door with explosive tags could hurt the Sandaime. Kicking the door down is impossible because of the reinforcement seals that the Sandaime had put into them when they were being built. So, we're gonna have to do something ANBU do."

Kakashi perked up at this and nodded as he looked at his student. "What do you propose Naruto?"

"What the attacker probably didn't expect was us repelling down from the Hokage Monument and breaking in through the windows."

One jounin, a glasses wearing fool with a bandana headband scoffed as he looked at Naruto. "Please. As if a plan like that would work. I am an elite jounin, training the Honorable Grandson myself. He could come up with something better than that."

Naruto flicked his eyes to the jounin. "I'm not going to deal with an idiot who doesn't know when something can't be controlled. Do what you will, but I will save my Hokage, even if it costs me my life. That is the role of a ninja. And that will be what I'll do."

With that, the Naruto they were talking to disappeared with a puff of smoke and everyone gasped. Some started muttering about Kage Bunshin and others about demon magic.

-Hokage Monument-

Naruto was looking over the edge of the Hokage Monument, clipping a rope to the carabiner he wore. He looked at the Third's stone face, muttering a quick apology as he tied the rope around one of the "hairs" atop his head. He placed the heels of his sandals on the edge and took a breath. He pushed off, jumping down and scaling his way to the Tower. As he made it to the top of the tower, he cut the rope, using chakra to stick to the wooden surface.

He was thankful for the black clothes he now wore and walked down to the windows. He stuck to the glass, drawing a kunai from his pouch and stabbed through the glass. The struggle within was more evident now and he cut a wide circle in it, careful to not alert those who were arguing with the Sandaime. As he climbed into the rafters, he put the hole back, nodding to the ANBU. When they didn't return the nod, Naruto checked them, noting all of them seemed to be in a sleep caused by a genjutsu. Naruto growled low, lowering his chakra.

-Hokage Office-

"No Danzo," came the voice of Sarutobi Hiruzen, the third Hokage. "I will not turn Naruto over to you to be turned into some weapon!"

"You're a fool Hiruzen," same a voice that was barely above a whisper. "That is what the Yondaime intended for the Uzumaki boy. Why else would he have created him? No orphan is ever chosen as the jinchuuriki of a village unless they were bred for war."

"You think you know everything don't you Danzo," Hiruzen said as he looked at the two augmented Ne that were holding him. "You truly think that's why Minato sealed the Kyuubi into Naruto?"

Naruto could imagine the nod Danzo gave. He heard his grandfather's "I've won this round," chuckle and gripped his kunai tighter.

"You're wrong," Hiruzen said as he took a deep breath. "Uzumaki Naruto's real name is Uzumaki-Namikaze Arashi Naruto."

Danzo dropped his cane in shock and the Ne looked at each other. Taking the opportunity, Hiruzen blew smoke into one ANBU's face, kicking him in the throat. Naruto ignored the bombshell he heard and dropped down, stabbing the other one in the throat.

Hiruzen and Danzo both looked at Naruto, one relieved and the other surprised and then angered. Naruto drew a second kunai, holding the other in his left hand and taking a boxers stance. Danzo growled as he saw Naruto's eyes become more slitted and his whisker marks more pronounced. Danzo raised his hands in a half-Hitsugi seal and looked at Hiruzen.

"You won't find me Hiruzen," Danzo said. "And if I can't have the boy, I will destroy him. His heritage will be revealed to the world and all will come for his head."

Hiruzen looked at his old rival, running forward to stop him from making a mistake. "Danzo don't!"

Naruto pushed him back as Danzo grew a maniacal grin. "Katsu!"

The entire room exploded as explosive tags hidden in the walls exploded. Wood blew everywhere and Naruto tackled the Sandaime, shielding the elder man's body with his own, taking the brunt of the blast. Naruto yelled as wood pierced his back. He looked up, noticing an explosive tag on the desk that just finished its countdown.

"Shit!" Naruto covered his face, but not in time as a shard of wood pierced through his eye. He screamed and the Sandaime held him as he began to lose consciousness. He could barely hear the Sandaime giving orders and someone yelling his name as he passed out, embracing the darkness that he so loathed to be in.

Well people, that's the end of the chapter. What do you all think will happen next? Review, favorite, follow. Do something! Peace.